Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I am Brett Weinstein your host and I am sitting with John Wood Jr

who is National Leader and Media Director at Better Angels. John, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast.

It's great to be back, Brett. Well, I say great to be back, of course. Folks will not know that I am back at this point.

They will not know. I've already started us on a tangent, have I not?

You have started us on a tangent. Yes, we, in fact, did do a prior conversation, which I regarded as

absolutely excellent, but it was our first conversation in the studio and the

studio did not function up to par. So I'm sad to say that that footage is not

rescuable. Hopefully this conversation will be just as good. It's going to be hard, but I'm hoping

we can get that. I feel like this was, that was probably my fault somehow in a grand

karmic sort of sense. I have a reputation, which my wife will happily corroborate for you, of

being the person around which technology tends to malfunction for no particular reason at all.

And so, you know, I put on a watch, it tends to break for no discernible reason within two or

three months, hence I do not wear one. Internet connections seem to slow when I'm around. Interesting.

Yeah, I mean, you know, this is this maybe some strange kind of, you know, static electrical

signal I'm giving off, or it might just be a function of the fact that for whatever reason,

Murphy's Law suggests that because I need to use technology, so consistent me in my life,

I cannot ever get it to actually work well because I'm destined to be frustrated in that

relationship, you know, in an everlasting way. And to frustrate other people around me in the

process. So no particular reason for it I can come up with, but feel free to blame me. Very

interesting for explanation. Murphy's Law has never worked for me, which I find interesting.

Technology is pretty good. I'm fine around tech, so probably that was you and not me. I find mirrors

don't work. They break upon you. So I don't know what that's about exactly, but it's either an

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